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Interview With Chernobyl Engineer

Posted by michael on from the close-encounters dept.

An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist has posted an interview with a former Chernobyl engineer, Alexander Yuvchenko, who was not only there the night of the explosion, but is still alive today to tell about it. A fascinating recollection of some pretty heroic acts."

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  1. Article forgot the picture by StevenHenderson · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Poor guy - look what happened to him

  2. Old slashdot article? by jmcmunn · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I read an article that I thought was posted here on /. a while back about a woman who rides her motorcycle around the chernobyl area. She had a website with lots of photos...wish I could find it again if anyone can track it down.

    Also, were't they filming a movie there (Night of the Living Dead or something) recently? From the sounds of it, there are just now becoming areas where you can go and not be subjected to the radiation...it's hard to imagine this guy making it this long.

  3. Chernobyl motorbike girl... by advocate_one · · Score: 0, Redundant
    wonder if she's done any more trips through...

    Nah... looks like she's been exploring some WWII battlefields...

    --
    Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
  4. Re:The THUD by WD_40 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In A.D. 1986 was was beginning...

    "Main screen turn on!!!"

    "It is you!!!"

    "You have no chance to survive make your time."

    --

    "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine." -- RFC 1925

  5. Re:The THUD by laura_glow · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "all your base are belong to us"

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